Top 5 accessibility tips for game developers
Nice accessibility tips checklist over on gamebase.info, although some awesome gamers such as Broly manage to get past lack of accessibility provision in games such as Super Street Fighter IV.
Optimise Flash + usability on mobile
Great series of articles over on InsideRIA. Part 1 and part 2 available so far.
Add XMP metadata using Flash/Flex Builder
Interesting post on how to add a little more meta to your swfs.
Adobe’s XMP Developer Center here too.
Flash indexing with external resource loading
Google have expanded their Flash indexing capabilities by allowing for the indexing of external assets. A lot of Flash applications read in some sort of XML config file, which in turn often loads in additional assets such as images, mp3s, etc. This is a big deal in getting Flash properly indexable, so kudos to Google.
SWFObject 2.2 released
Looks like a heap of useful new features have been added to SWFObject. Spotted thanks to an email from Swingpants.
How mobile Flickr was built
Really interesting blog post on how the mobile version of Flickr was constructed. I haven’t had the opportunity to try the mobile version of the site out on a mobile browser aside from iPhone Safari, but it works really well on that browser. You can tell the focus on optimising everything has paid off when it comes down to user experience, and I love the visual feedback that every click provides (so the user isn’t left twiddling his/her thumbs wondering if a click has registered).
Improved Flash indexing by Google
Big news. Read here. Thanks to Mr “always 4th in the league” for sending me the link. 
Flex accessibility
A good post from Aral regarding the state of accessibility within Flex. I hope they concentrate on this side of Flash soon rather than adding more wizzy features; it seems with Flash and AJAX you’re always having to hold your hands up and admit that they don’t bring a lot to the party when it comes to people with specific accessibility issues.
Stop using AJAX!
Very good article on the dev Opera site by brothercake on why AJAX isn’t necessarily the best thing ever when it comes to building websites and keeping the web accessible to all.
Get Flash you stupid hippie!
One of the major pains of web development is having to factor in users with “non-standard configurations”. What looks good on your machine doesn’t mean it will for a proportion of your users. However, this no-flash warning up on the South Park website is pure genius, as is the 404. I wish I was given the green light at work to do this!
